Hey fam!
This week has just been a blur. Seriously I am trying to remember what happened haha.
Monday: We went up to the stake center again and found a puppy place! Sister Gorder really wanted to pet puppies, so we found the cutest rottweiler. We had a zone training meeting that night which was so spirit-filled. Since we don't have a zone conference this week our leaders decided we needed to have a zone training meeting. Oh and it was also sister Gorder's 11th month mark! Shout out to her!
Tuesday: We had district meeting. It was all about weekly planning and I thought it was going to be soooo boring. But it was actually super uplifting. I love all the resources we have as missionaries! We also had a really good lesson with Michael. Sister Gorder and I are trying to be more bold and loving. So since we haven't seen him in a while we were bold. It brought the Spirit in as we testified more and helped him realize that doing little things like prayer and reading the scriptures will help him to improve the quality of his life. He has a desire to change, but change can also be hard.
Tender mercy of the day: we went to Subway for dinner real quick inbetween appointments and met a guy named Mike that we were planning on meeting on Saturday! So cool! We also met with Alex and Katelyn that night.
Wednesday: We went on exchanges with our sister training leaders! I stayed in Racine--they always seem to want me in Racine! But everything fell through...so we got to do some finding! Haha, it was good.
Thursday: We found out tracting that if you knock on a no soliciting door that you may or may not get a ticket. One lady threatened to call the cops on us. So much for spreading the love, right? We met witha sweet lady (a new move into the ward) for dinner at Applebee's! Then we had a really good lesson with Monica. She has been struggling to understand the Restoration, so we taught it to her again using a visual aid. She was able to understand more. She also really connected with the member we brought. I love it when that happens!! She turned to us in the middle of the lesson and was like, "okay I like her" haha! So funny.
Friday: We had a lesson with Gloria! She is so cute. But she also has a lot of medical issues, so she said she couldn't make it to church this week (she was planning on it this Sunday). She also doesn't quite understand why she would have to be baptized AGAIN. But she said that she would pray about the Book of Mormon. That is one things I love as a missionary. You can teach and testify all day long, but in the end you can ask them to test the Book of Mormon out themselves. Read it, and pray to know if it is true. If you do so with faith, a sincere heart, and real intent you will know the truth by the Holy Ghost. Never fails. :) Oh we also had a lesson with Ethia and her kids. They are so funny. They love it when we come and really want to be baptized. Their cat also had kittens, and they were soooo cute!!
Saturday: Honestly I don't know what happened Saturday. It was all plan B (not plan A) haha. But we did feel like we needed a break half way through the day and so we got Culvers ice cream. :) Oh we went to go visit Wanda and while we were waiting to get buzzed in this black little girl and boy came up. She was trying to get in but no one was buzzing her in, so she said "if they don't open this door soon, I'm finna go crazy!" Oh it was so funny. She also told us that she was 9, and the little boy was all like naw you're only 7! So she took him and threw him in the snow. All that sass!
Sunday: I love church!! Always the best day of the week. We had a linger longer after church and the theme was pie. So we had a lot of pie! Fun stuff!
So at the zone training meeting they began by bringing to the front a tray of cupcakes (one of the senior couples made them). They asked one elder if he wanted one, and of course he said yes. So they asked for another elder, elder Thacker, to come up. They asked if he'd so 10 pushups so the other elder could have a cupcake. And he said yes. Then they asked someone else if they wanted a cupcake. The same thing happened. This continued until you could tell Elder Thacker was getting tired...so people started saying no. But their reply was okay, elder Thacker will you do 10 push ups so that sister so and so can have the cupcake that she doesn't want. You have to realize that our zone isn't small, it's the largest in the mission. So Elder Thacker did 360 push ups that night. Everyone was silent by the end. Of course elder Thacker represented the Savior. It was amazing how that put into perspective the Savior's atoning sacrifice. He suffered for me and he suffered for you. He did that for every single person. And it is an individual thing--he coulded to 10 push ups for everyone, he was to do them for each person individually. And all he replied was yes every time. I know that Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed for each one of us. He knows us and our struggles. He wants us to always remember Him. That is part of the reason I am on a mission. I want everyone to feel that peace and comfort and strength that comes from Him.
Have a blessed week!
Sister Johns
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